Ford v. City of Birmingham

CARR, Judge.

In the circuit court the accused was charged and convicted on this complaint: “Comes the City of Birmingham, Alabama, a municipal corporation, and complains that Phillip Ford within twelve months before the beginning of this prosecution and within the City of Birmingham, or the police jurisdiction thereof, did possess tickets, writings, papers, slips, documents, or memorandums of a kind which are customarily or usually used in the operation of a lottery, policy game, or other game of chance, contrary to and in violation of Section 600 of the General City Code of Birmingham of…